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Thursday, June 1st, 2018

Thanks to Kevin Curtin and Austin Chronicle for the insightful and intriguing article about all the music happening ‘on the fringe’ in Austin these day, and from (amongst much more) the set at Me Mer Mo Monday with Lisa Cameron and Adam Busch last Monday!!!

“The night’s most thrilling set came from experimental percussion fixture Lisa Cameron (ST 37), singer-songwriter Adam Ostrar (ex-Manishevitz), and double bass phenom Ingebrigt Håker Flaten. Seventy listeners flooded the tiny room for the talented triad, which enraptured them for a 45-minute sonic odyssey that found Cameron plucking, bowing, and remixing a ghostly variation of a gutbucket as Ostrar stun-gunned guitar strings with an electromagnet, and Håker Flaten bent space and time with long explorative solos that snapped back in heavy jazz walks. When the final note faded, the audience remained hushed until an involuntary response broke the silence.
“Damn!”
Then everyone roared.”

Thanks to Dave Douglas for inviting us to play Bergamo Jazz Festival back in 2016! A big honor of course!! It’s a great performance and it’s on You Tube (no surprise!). You better check it out! We’re soon hitting the roads of the North Americas again and we’re ready to play!! Here’s the schedule ::

It was great to work with Signe Krunderup Emmeluth and Vetle Larsen on this album, and of course (and again) this would not have been possible without the amazing studio expertise of Chico Jones!!! Very proud about the result, please check it out, I’ll promise you’ll find some surprising tumbles and tweaks in there!!! I’m playing on a couple of tracks too, couldn’t resist the temptation….

Thursday, Jan 25th, 2018

I’m happy to share my new and updated website with y’all! Thanks to George Staicu for the help in tweaking my web precense and coming up with some new and sexy design to keep the love flowing!! It’s a lot of exciting news to share on so many levels coming up this year and you can find info on my bands, albums, touring schedule, new recordings (I’d say you check that out for some nice surprises coming up this spring!) and much more. I’m commited to keep this page as updated as I possibly can and will add stuff as we go! Thanks for checking in and for coming back for more!! Love is in the air baby!!!

After two increadible weeks of new musics and great adventures with G.I.G.A.N.T.E. throughout beautiful Mexico, I arrived to a freezing cold Amsterdam this morning. I have to admit that was a bit harsh change of environment! But it’s equally exciting to start another tour with a new freewheeling quartet with some of my favorite improvisers today; Teun Verbruggen, Nate Wooley and Jozef Dumoulin. We kicked it off with a dramatically dynamic set at De Ruimte tonite, the music was flowing freely in multiple directions and I cannot wait to continue to explore further with this new band. After deeply enjoying the sounds of fantastic Marta Warelis Trio we’re now on our way to Brussels which will be the headquarter for the next 5 Belgium gigs!! It’s been a very long day and I’m looking much forward to sleep laying down for more than a couple of hours but the energy is still popping. Here’s to music!!!!

Friday, Jan 12th, 2018

Just ended some incredible deep and inspiring sound explorations with magicians German Bringas and Gibrán Andrade! So happy i brought my chinese lady tied up with 12 goats to Mexico City! Look out for this trio album coming out ‘somewhere’ hopefully in the near future! No hay pedo!!

A million thanks to Jorge Caradura Dau and The Jazz Foundation in Puerto Vallarta for hosting 4 nights of Gigante and to give us a chance to work on some new music by Todd and Santiago (with a brand new band)!! It’s a rare opportunity to be able to do this kinda things these days, and this band rocks, it’s a privilege to play with Todd Clouser, Santiago Botero and Jorge Servin Rivera!!! Also what an amazing place!! …remember I’m norwegian alright! We got a Sunday matinee concert at Casitas Maraika Beach Club tomorrow before heading to Mexico City, I highly recommend you come!!

Monday, Jan 1st, 2018

YES YES YES!! 2018 is ON and I’m feeling pretty stoked to be starting it off by going to Mexico for the two first weeks to play a few gigs around the country (with a brand new and exciting group; GIGANTE w/ Todd Clouser, Jorge Servin Rivera and Santiago Botero)!! We will get the chance to finetune a book of songs, a brew of Tropicalia, Cumbia and Psych Dance (!!) inspired musics, over 5 nights in Puerto Vallarta before we hit Queretaro, Mexico City and Cholua. Thanks to Todd Clouser for organizing and setting up this tour. I’m also very happy to be doing a night of improvised music in Mexico City with some of my great friends and fantastic improvisers there; Gibrán Andrade, German Bringas, Tavo Nanda, Jacob Wick, Carlos Alegre and Misha Marks! After Mexico ill be going straight back to EU for an album release tour (‘Walters First’ on Rat Records) with another new band with amazing Teun Verbruggen, Nate Wooley and Jozef Dumoulin!! Thanks a ton to Teun for making this happening!! l’ll end this month back in Austin at the Me-Mer-Mo Monday series at Volstead in a(NOTHER new) band with Lisa Cameron and Adam Busch!! This year couldn’t possibly get off to a better start!!!

Back in Austin and i’m so proud to announce that ‘Village Songs – Den Signede Dag’ – based on religious hymns and folk songs from my home village, Oppdal just got released by the Norwegian record label Heilo!! The album includes some absolutely beautiful singing and playing by Gunvor Gustavsen, Andreas Bjørkås, Jonathan F Horne, Bob Hoffnar, Daniel Dufour, William Sterling Steffen + a very special guest performance by Joe McPhee!
The original trio with my great friends and amazing folk musicians from Oppdal; Gunvor and Andreas, was recorded during the summer of 2016 by Jørn Hoel and Olav J Hoel, and then with the incredible expertise of Chico Jones we lay’ed down the Austin part of the session this September!

I’ve been working on the these mesmerizing hymns for a while now and I’m beyond happy to finally see the music getting out there in it’s full incarnationl! A very special thanks goes out to Gunvor, Tore Fagerhaug and Erik Viken who helped me collect the songs for this project!! There’s so much more to say about this but you can listen and find more info if you go to my Bandcamp page (link below), please check it out!!

AND, a very limited edition of 20 copies (for $25 incl. shipping in the US) are available now directly from me if you PM me herel Woah, christmas came early!!!! 😊

After exactly (to the day!) a month on the road (and having my spirit filled up with so much good music and the feeling of being blessed by all the awesome musicians I’m so grateful to be working with, and all the great people that I meet on my way ❤️🎶❤️), I’m finally en-route back to Austin.

And, I’m not complaining, I’m just making it public, some might find it amusing… And ok, I might be a little bored too…. ANYWAYS, here’s my schedule for my last two days before arriving home tomorrow night (I’m now by point number 7 and feeling hopeful that I’l make it alive!!).

And by revealing all this sensitive information I do understand that some might ask why the heck I do this and why I didn’t just book my return from Zurich? PLEASE DON’T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*1 :: I needed to mention the Dinner cause it’s probably the last ‘good’ meal I’ll have in a couple of days and because I’ve been so lucky to been taken care of over the last three days by the amazing Hildegard and Walter that run the residency at Bau 4 in Altburon, an amazing place and absolutely beautiful couple that do some incredible work for the arts and creative music!! THANKS!!!

*2 :: I needed to mention the Concert cause I’ve been so lucky to been workin with the great ILOG (Oliver Steidle and Ignaz Schick) over the last three days, and the concert was Kick-ass!! Which again generated so much good energy that it will make this whole return trip just feel like peanuts!!! THANKS!!!

Point made! It’s just another Saturday night, life’s a trip and I’ll be home for Christmas!!!

Hi there, its been a while! Just wanted to announce my touring schedule for this fall, so much good stuff happening this coming months. Please check out the full schedule below. And stay put for a new and updated website coming very soon!!! Music Music Music!!!

Hi there, touring schedule for April and May added, new and old collaborations to play in and places to visit. I’m also very happy that more and more is happing in my own home turf, Austin TX! I feel so humbled and grateful to be able to play and learn from all of these highly inspiring musicians and human beings. Hope to see you along the way somewhere in the world.

I’m very honored to’ve been portrayed on German Radio/BR Klassik’s ‘Jazztime’ in an interview by Sirius W. Palzzad. He is playing music from a variaty of my bands and collaborations (in order of apparence: The Young Mothers, Atomic, IHF ‘Oslo’ Kvintett, IHF/Håkon Kornstad Duo, The Cherry Thing, Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms, IHF/Nate Wooley/Joe Morris/Joe McPhee Quartet, and my Chicago Quintet). The program was aired back on Nov. 20th 2014 and you can check it out here :